Request for Question Clarification by
bobbie7-ga
on
02 Dec 2005 12:46 PST
Could it be the Rowan series by Anne McCaffrey?
?The Rowan, a powerful but lonely psychic in charge of the Federal
Telepath & Transport service, touches minds and falls in love with
another of her ilk who needs help fighting extraterrestrials.?
?Rowan, a telepathic, telekinetic three-year-old, is the sole survivor
of a mining disaster on a frontier planet. As she matures, her powers
grow until she becomes one of a handful of "Primes" with the Federal
Telepath & Teleport network, the organization responsible for
telecommunications and shipping of cargo throughout the galaxy.?
"The Rowan is orphaned at 3 years old on Altair during a horrible
mudslide which wipes out her family and an entire mining camp except
her. She is heard and rescued because she is a very strong "Talent" --
a person with strong psi skills and in this case, telepathing (as well
as telekinesis and teleport as shown later in the book)."
?She lands a post on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, where there is a
domed environment. The Rowan being very temperamental takes a few
years to get her staff together finally setting on Afra of Capella for
her T-3 assistant. She is contacted by a untrained Prime on the far
out colony world of Deneb which is being invaded first by bio-warfare
and then missiles by ruthless aliens.?
?Orphaned at age three, little Angharad Gwyn has her memories of those
first years of her life blocked by rescuers who desperately need to
silence the child's telephathic cries for her dead parents. Since she
therefore can't even remember her name, she comes to be called "the
Rowan child" - for the mining company whose remote work site has
fallen victim to a landslide, of which this little girl is the sole
survivor. Hers is the strongest Talent that the Human colony-world
Altair has yet bred, and she's immediately marked for training as a
tower-dwelling Prime. She'll spend her adult life shifting cargo
containers and passenger vessels, and military units as well, from one
star system to another. Instantly, across light years of space. The
Rowan's future looks bright, but lonely; because when Primes travel
between worlds, they suffer horribly.?
?This book first follows the life of the child known only as the Rowan
as she grows into adulthood. The Rowan is a powerful telepath and
telekinetic and she is trained accordingly.?
